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Linguistics, OPIE and ELIP Faculty and Students Present at CALL Conference

Linguistics, OPIE and ELIP Faculty and Students Present at CALL Conference

Faculty and students from the Linguistics Department, Ohio Program of Intensive English, and English Language Improvement Program are presenting at the Ohio University CALL Conference on April 11. CALL is computer-assisted language learning. Dr. Greg Kessler, Director of the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts & Sciences and […]

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April 4, 2014 at 7:06 pmNews Research

Physics Student Finds Way to Differentiate Nanoscale Defects in Graphene

Physics Student Finds Way to Differentiate Nanoscale Defects in Graphene

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Analyzing the motion of electrons, Ohio University researchers have developed a process to discriminate among different impurities in graphene–the strong, light and conductive material only one atom thick being studied for a variety of nanoscale applications. Physics doctoral student Mahmoud Asmar and Dr. Sergio […]

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April 3, 2014 at 9:00 amResearch

Supercontinents: Earth’s Radical Story of Birth and Destruction

Dr. Damian Nance

Gondwana. Rodinia. Nuna. Kenorland. Vaalbara. They sound like other worlds. They likely represent the past of this world. The introduction of plate tectonics 45 years ago was one of the scientific revelations of the 20th century. German meteorologist Alfred Wegener is given credit for hypothesizing in 1912 that today’s continents […]

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March 26, 2014 at 2:15 pmNews Research

Climates Past: From Greenhouse to Hothouse

Climates Past: From Greenhouse to Hothouse

The Earth’s climate has gone from Greenhouse to Hothouse more than dozen times this eon. Each time, researchers say, magma brought the heat. Dr. David L. Kidder is helping to characterize the Hothouse planetary state by studying times when the Earth’s deep-level plumbing system sent large volumes of magma to […]

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March 26, 2014 at 11:02 amResearch

How Much Appetite Does Soil Have for Climate Change?

How Much Appetite Does Soil Have for Climate Change?

Above the soil, trees and crops are dining on carbon dioxide—even grabbing more than scientists originally expected from the atmosphere. They might suck some of that carbon into their roots, or lay it down upon the soil as they wither with winter. While one Ohio University researcher is studying how […]

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March 25, 2014 at 3:52 pmResearch

Bikowski Featured Speaker as India Teachers Discuss English Training for Workforce

Bikowski Featured Speaker as India Teachers Discuss English Training for Workforce

Dr. Dawn Bikowski, Director of the English Language Improvement Program at Ohio University, was a featured speaker at the Teacher Educator Conference 2014 put on by the British Council in Hyderabad, India, in February. It’s the largest teacher education conference in India. Bikowski spoke on “The Pedagogy of Collaboration: Teaching […]

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March 20, 2014 at 3:12 pmAlumni Research

Nance Article Named Among Top in 25 Years of Gondwana Research

Dr. R. Damian Nance’s article “The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay” was named one of 25 papers in a virtual special issues celebrating the 25-year history of Gondwana Research. Nance is Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University. Gondwana Research is an international journal aimed to promote high quality […]

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March 20, 2014 at 11:16 amResearch